Jun 17·edited Jun 17Liked by David Roytenberg, Brian Henry
I thought I had an emotional attachment to NPR, but then October 7 happened. I spent too much time responding to show after show full of anti-Israel distortions, writing letters to the producers, and getting ignored except for once. I've stopped listening to their shows, stopped donating to them (and never will again), stopped getting their newsletters, and unsubscribed from all their feeds. Guess what, I still have plenty of interesting things to listen to on my commute, and the rage at all the manipulative language and outright lies of their pro Hamas staff has evaporated. In the end, very few people are listening to NPR, and now it'll be less. I think the same process would work for the CBC. Give it a try.
CBC TV is already a ghost land, broadcasting shows no one watches. CBC Radio has far deeper roots but it's been doing it's best to turn away listeners.
Thank you for an informative read. And as I'm always scouring articles for something that I can present to my acquaintances at the gym, to try to explain anything, I will put this analogy to use - that "it would be criminal for ordinary kidnappers to fire on police officers."
In regards to your article, more generally, so much of the media is skewed. Their readers / listeners are gullible or unbelieving or antisemitic. And can uninvolved Canadians and Americans even understand that "civilian deaths in Gaza are considered a “necessary sacrifice" by their leaders? Or really understand that the Hamas fighters believe that they are victorious whether they are successful in killing Jews, or die trying?
Israel is fighting a war like no other. Jews worldwide are still fighting a version of hundreds of years of the same onslaught.
I thought I had an emotional attachment to NPR, but then October 7 happened. I spent too much time responding to show after show full of anti-Israel distortions, writing letters to the producers, and getting ignored except for once. I've stopped listening to their shows, stopped donating to them (and never will again), stopped getting their newsletters, and unsubscribed from all their feeds. Guess what, I still have plenty of interesting things to listen to on my commute, and the rage at all the manipulative language and outright lies of their pro Hamas staff has evaporated. In the end, very few people are listening to NPR, and now it'll be less. I think the same process would work for the CBC. Give it a try.
CBC TV is already a ghost land, broadcasting shows no one watches. CBC Radio has far deeper roots but it's been doing it's best to turn away listeners.
Thank you for an informative read. And as I'm always scouring articles for something that I can present to my acquaintances at the gym, to try to explain anything, I will put this analogy to use - that "it would be criminal for ordinary kidnappers to fire on police officers."
In regards to your article, more generally, so much of the media is skewed. Their readers / listeners are gullible or unbelieving or antisemitic. And can uninvolved Canadians and Americans even understand that "civilian deaths in Gaza are considered a “necessary sacrifice" by their leaders? Or really understand that the Hamas fighters believe that they are victorious whether they are successful in killing Jews, or die trying?
Israel is fighting a war like no other. Jews worldwide are still fighting a version of hundreds of years of the same onslaught.
Am Yisrael Chai.
CBC is dead to me.
I was once horrified at threats by Conservatives to defend it or scale it back. No more.